Happy Thursday! Most areas have dried out this afternoon with temps in the 40s and 50s. Newport is already near the 60° mark! The rest of the area will continue to dry out and warm up. The rain we have seen is from a large warm front that is slowly moving north. A warm front is literally the front edge of a much warmer air mass. So in our case today, as the rain lifts north and the skies clear the temps will warm up quite a bit. In fact, I'm calling for daytime highs today in the upper-50s and potentially lower-60s. Not bad!
Another system will move in tonight and into Friday for a rainy and somewhat cooler day. In fact it will rain by about 10pm lasting into tomorrow. The rain will end by Saturday with just a few showers possible throughout the day. Into Sunday the day should be dry with rain holding off until about 7pm or so. That means the Worst Day Of The Year Ride should be dry! I'll keep you updated as conditions change. In the mean time, enjoy the mild temps.
Meteorologist Nick Allard, KGW First Alert Storm Team
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